A source-critical guide that decomposes “first” claims in mainland China’s transgender medical history into procedure scope, geography, institution, publicity, administrative effect, event time, and source role, comparing the 1983 Zhang Kesha surgery, regional surgery histories of the 1990s, marriage registration in 2003, Geng Zi’s public identity in 2005–2006, and national technical rules from 2009 to 2022.
A media history of Jin Xing from the reported cancellation of a television judgeship linked to her transgender history in 2011 through talk-show hosting, repeated reality-TV mentorship, and the 2015 launch of The Jin Xing Show, proposing a four-stage role-legitimacy ladder for transgender public visibility.
An institutional archive guide to four decades of Peking University Third Hospital webpages, departmental histories, clinic guides, policy documents, clinical studies, and community-preserved copies, tracing how transgender medicine moved from a surgical case record to multidisciplinary care and research cohorts.
A historical-source guide that separates public self-identification and names, media labels, medical and administrative terms, and present-day editorial description, while tracking each naming event across time.
A case study of the Guiyang Mr C transgender employment dispute, tracing how labor arbitration, wrongful-dismissal litigation, personality-rights litigation, and appeal translated gender identity, gender expression, and equal employment into a durable judicial record.
A historical study of clinical, media, administrative, and community vocabularies for transgender and gender-diverse lives in mainland China, using a vocabulary-stratigraphy model to explain how terms such as yixingzheng, bianxing ren, gender reassignment, transgender, and kuar coexist across institutions.
A research encyclopedia entry traces how Japanese 男の娘 (otokonoko) moved through publishing, cosplay, physical venues, creator self-description, and platform tags from a media-character category into several forms of real-person labeling.
A historical essay separates the origin question into three clocks—terms, media characters, and embodied practice—to trace how Japanese otokonoko publishing, cosplay, and Chinese platform language converged.
A substantial research map that organizes nanniang, weiniang, cross-dressing, otokonoko, Nanliang, and related materials through six reusable entry points: speaker, referent and practice, page position, historical pathway, community circulation, and strength of evidence.
A platform observatory report on public Bilibili pages from 2024–2026, examining how nanniang, cross-dressing, Nanliang, Xiao Nanliang, CD, TS, and MTF move across titles, tags, series, bios, danmu, and search entry points.